Paper Mill Dam

• I used to fish down there.👍
• I saw the biggest snapping turtle in my life right there
• Oh used to hang out and swim there ! Jumped off bridge !
• I use to swim there
• Shame they stopped the falls as it was a beautiful place at one time
• Best brown trout hole back then
• Always trout there when the falls ran over - it’s a shadow of its past now
• Thanks for the memory!​
• I remember how it would shake if you were on it when a car crossed it too!
• But your not supposed to swim by the dams !
• Great place to jump off the bridge and swim with the snapping turtles !
• swim and fished there from the time I was a young kid !
• Same and in Wolfies Ponds
• Swam and dove off that bridge many times back in the 60's, great fishing as well !
• Use to go fishing with my Father there. Great memories for me.🎣
• We used to swim there a lot. When I was younger lived in one of the house just be for this bridge
• Good memories fishing with my dad
•  I use to swim on the other side.
• Omg I lived on top of the hill...my dad Jim Stephens built our house with my brother in the 80's....oh good times
• Jump off the bridge many times caught trout with hands trying to climb falls
• The water had it's own smell , like algie ? maybe
• We used to jump of there is the sixties
• The old 'Don't Jump!' bridge. lol
• Paper Mill dam
• Remember jumping off that bridge
• The St Pierre’s used to do some amazing dives off the big bridge
• they were pretty daring guys. plus they lived the closest to it
• Ah the Old Paper Mill Dam look at the freaking water there then! Development really screwed that water table
• Nothing to do with development. The removed the dam portion that would hold back the water. The way it is now is actually it's natural flow.
• I remember that Dam but didn't realize it was the original roadway across the river
• When did they put the river dr bridge used now. As far as I can remember it was there. I remember fishing off the Dam while kids jumped off the top bridge
• I've been going through newspapers online.. from what I can tell.. early 80s.. can't pin point an exact year.. coming up with articles about planning and then one in 81 about driving on the new structure
• I remember when we use to drive over the lower one..
• My Father use to jump of the old dam bridge many years ago when he was a young boy also it was a favorite spot to cool off
• Fished with our girls
• Swam there
• Used to go there a lot, my Grandparents lived just around the bend before the dam.
• I loved juming off there
• My Paper mill memories are a bit different than the pic. The dam was one location down stream from the bridge that the traffic crosses the river. Spent several consecutive summers there, tanned brown...swimming every day and yes, jumping off the bridge. The funniest thing I recall were some Army cadets who brought rappelling gear with them and set up on the bridge deck. The 3 of them geared up in harnesses, threw rope over the railing and all three came down the ropes in a controlled decent until about 6 feet to the water surface and they'd drop into the river being at ropes end, swim to shore, and follow the path back to the bridge deck; and repeat. Me being me, I became curious as to what would happen if...I waited until they were on shore and walking back, and I hauled up one of their ropes...and quick as can be, tied a loop knot about half way, and threw the rope back down. ;) We could barely contain ourselves as these three hooked back up to their lines (unaware of my Tomfu*kery), and began their decent. Like spiders on their lines down they come; then, the one in the center stopped dead as the other two continue and drop into the river. Some swearing, spitting, grunting and moaning could be heard over our howling laughter, and he somehow managed to disconnect his harness from the rope (Herculean effort) and drop much farther than expected to the water with a thud. We were crying with laughter at this point and had to keep our distance because they were fightin' mad. Lol. They packed up and left without further incident.